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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:35 PM
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It's not every day that you get mugged for your bandanna....
Jeebus, what a day. On top of kitteh's surgery, I had an incident today at the subway station.

Without getting into too much detail, I was accosted by some punk ass thug, pushed around, and had my bandanna ripped off of my head, after being questioned on my gang affiliations...Wrong day to wear a red bandanna, I suppose.

Scared the living crap out of me...He was about 6 feet tall and menacing, I'm all of 5'2...Young men can be so charming... :eyes:

It's days like this that I really just wanna move home to the country, where such stupid f'd up crap doesn't happen. :mad:

And there's my day. x(

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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:36 PM
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1. Yikes.
That sounds scary.

Glad you are ok.

:hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:39 PM
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6. it was, and I'm ok, yes...
:hug:

I'm more angry than anything else, frankly.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:36 PM
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2. Glad you are ok!
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:40 PM
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7. I'm fine, thanks
:) Just needed to vent...
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:38 PM
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3. Oh for Pete's sake. That's awful.
Did anyone else see what happened?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:39 PM
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5. Not to my knowledge, and I couldn't
find a subway cop anywhere...At that point, I was so freaked out that I just got on the train and went home...sigh.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:43 PM
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12. Well I'm very sorry.
I spent two years avoiding assholes on NYC trains, so I completely sympathize.

I'm glad you're okay.

~Writer~
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:45 PM
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13. Thanks...
:hug:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:38 PM
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4. Wow, that sucks!
I'm just glad you're okay - that must have been scary. :hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:41 PM
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9. Yes, it was...I've never been in a situation like that...
I wish I hadn't froze up, but it wasn't in a good neighborhood, and I didn't want to push my luck. At least he didn't take my wallet too.

:hug:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:40 PM
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8. Damn, I had no idea you were a member of a gang! Whoda thunk it?
I kid, of course! I'm glad you weren't hurt, though understandably, you were quite scared.

Some people are just flat fucking out of their minds!


:hug: :hug: :hug:

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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:42 PM
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10. I agree, some people are...
And yeah, bloods 4 life! :P

Thanks sweetie :hug:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:42 PM
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11. Word!
:hug:

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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:46 PM
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14. You should have shanked him.
You WERE carrying your shiv, weren't you?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:49 PM
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15. Left it at home today, damnit...
x(

:P

Believe me, if I ever see him again, I'm so gonna yell "Stop trying to rape me!!!" Stupid fucker.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:54 PM
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20. "That's my purse! I don't know you!"
*kick to the groin*
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:55 PM
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21. Exactly!!
Fucked up thing is, I'm trained to defend myself against sexual assault, but not general assault. Weird. :crazy:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:50 PM
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16. Oh jeez.
Hope you're ok. :hug:

My buddy was questioned and harassed for wearing supposed gang colors. This was years ago when we were in high school. Happened at the mall.

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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:52 PM
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18. I'm "ok", just angry....
That's pretty much how it went, except in Dorchester, where they like to murder people. Hence my not wanting to press my luck.

But on the funny side, if I were a blood, why would I have been wearing a blue vest? Color blind gangbanger? :rofl:
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:51 PM
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17. What a monumental asshole.
And what an idiot, too. I'm so sorry you had to go through that. :-( :hug: :loveya:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:53 PM
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19. Yeah, agreed....
I do need to file a report...and write a nasty letter to the MBTA about their staffing issues. Not a cop in sight, in a bad neighborhood, while in my own 'hood, we normally have at least 3 just standing there with their thumbs up their asses. :eyes:

Thanks love...I'll be ok :hug:

:loveya:
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 06:58 PM
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22. So glad you are all right...
I would be so freaked out. Write that letter now while you're still steaming.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:16 PM
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25. Thanks, I was....
And, I will :pals:
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:00 PM
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23. Glad you are OK!
Jeez, that must have been scary!!! :hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:16 PM
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26. Thanks babe!!
:hug:
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:03 PM
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24. I'm so sorry life sucked this way for you. Here, I'll make it all better.
I'm posting a copy cat just for you, Bicen_baby. And I hope kittay gets better soon
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:17 PM
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27. I loved your copycat...
:rofl:

And thanks :pals:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:18 PM
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28. Glad you're ok.
that is scary!

:hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:19 PM
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29. I'll be fine, I'm a tough cookie...
F'n Dorchester though.... :mad:

:hug:
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:21 PM
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31. tell your Kitteh to stop flashing gang signs!
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:20 PM
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30. Some things never change.
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 07:21 PM by Kutjara
The exact thing happened to a friend of mine when we were walking in Times Square...in 1979.

Out of nowhere, a group of assholes in matching accessories surrounded us and demanded to know our "gang affiliation." When we told them we didn't know what they were talking about, the shortest one (with the biggest attitude, since he was in the company of five huge friends) ripped the bandana off my friend's head and said, "you don't wanna come round here no more."

I suppose the only consolation is that half of those assholes are dead now. Stupid and mean never lives long.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:23 PM
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32. Very similar to what happened to me...
Fucking people... x(
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Tektonik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:38 PM
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33. That's what you get for being part of the gay mafia
Edited on Wed Dec-12-07 07:40 PM by Saint Etienne17
:eyes:

I'm relieved to here you're okay. :) People are weird out there. I often walk outside around at 4 or 5 in the morning, and one time I had a guy in a hooded sweatshirt approach me from across the 6 lane avenue I was walking along just to ask me if I wanted to use his skateboad because I looked like I was in a hurry :crazy:. I'm a big guy, but being tall and decently strong does nothing for me when someone could have a knife or a gun. Also the part of the avenue I was walking along was right beside the entrance to a hiking trail in a canyon.

The only other weird thing that's happened to me here in University City/La Jolla was approached by a car in the middle of the day on a busy street asking if I had some pot. I said no, they drove off.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:44 PM
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34. Hehe....
gay mafia report for duty....Yeah, maybe I was looking a lil too butch for them :P

:hug: Thanks friend.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:52 PM
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35. Ah, Dot. A fine place, except where it isn't.
Do you suppose kitteh arranged a hit in retribution for this morning?:evilgrin:


Glad you're okay.:hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:55 PM
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36. Nah, he was still under sedation at the time...
It wasn't even the "bad" part of Dorchester, it was at JFK/UMASS! :wtf:

Yeah, I'm cool...Totally going to rant on the MBTA for not having any cops there...Qz Center has several on a daily basis that don't do jack shit.

Thanks friend :hug:
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 07:59 PM
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37. how frightening!
I've been jostled around like that and after I was done being scared and my heartbeat returned to normal, I was SO DAMN MAD! I'm glad you're OK. :hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:05 PM
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39. That's exactly how I feel!
Thanks :hug:
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:04 PM
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38. Bastard!
Thank the gods you are OK. I hate it when some random person inserts themselves into your everyday life just to crap all over it.

OTOH, I wear a blue bandanna around the house. I hope that means we still can be friends. B-)

What the fuck is with all the violence of late? I think a lot has to do with how desperate people have become having to lived through the last seven years.

:grouphug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:07 PM
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40. Thank you so much sweetie...
I know you know the feeling :hug:

And yes, of course my Crip bff... :P

I dunno, I was so shocked. Just coming home from school, like I've done for 3 semesters, 5 days a week...I'll be more wary now.

:hug:

:loveya:
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Inchworm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:24 PM
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41. That sucks!
Glad you are ok!

Well, now you are with us... as eeerie as that may sound. I hope your evening is a good one.

:hug:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-12-07 08:27 PM
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42. I'm glad to be with you!!
And not in a pool of blood or something...I'm trying to be upbeat, and I'll be ok by morning. :)

Thanks :hug:
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